Contact for adding safety minutes :)

When submitting safety minutes please attach PDF / WORD document send documents to:

Email: srsm.wildfire@gmail.com

You can also just write the safety minutes in the message below and SRSM will make into a document. 

Ensure you add your name or crew if you would like the credit :) 

If it is just a suggestion of a topic please allow time for finding the proper information up to 5 business days.

THANK YOU, 

🔥SRSM🔥 

Why Take a Safety Minute?

A Safety Minutes is a brief but impactful conversation designed to spotlight a specific hazard, safety behavior, or operational best practice. It's more than just a checkbox—it’s a vital tool to:

  • Promote real-time awareness on and off the fire line
  • Strengthen crew-wide communication and shared responsibility
  • Reinforce the safety culture that keeps everyone going home at the end of the shift
  • Proactively identify and address risks before they escalate into incidents

These moments help build habits that can save lives in dynamic, high-risk environments.

 

🕰️ Safety Minutes: A Canadian Wildfire Tradition

Before we hit the fire line, we talk safety... and there's a reason.

Safety Minutes have been part of Canada’s wildfire culture since the ‘90s, when fire behavior started getting more extreme. Crews needed a way to quickly get on the same page before stepping into high-risk, fast-changing environments.

Agencies like Alberta Wildfire, BC Wildfire Service, and Ontario AFFES made Safety Minutes part of their daily rhythm—short, focused check-ins to sharpen situational awareness, tighten communication, and flag hazards before they become problems.

Today, that tradition continues. Couple minutes of clear thinking before boots hit the ground can prevent hours of chaos later.

Stay alert. Speak up. Watch each other’s backs.

Couple minutes. Every shift. It matters.

 

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